v1.18.1

1.18.1

October 30, 2024

CHANGES:

• auth/azure: Update plugin to v0.19.1 [GH-28712]
• secrets/azure: Update plugin to v0.20.1 [GH-28699]
• secrets/openldap: Update plugin to v0.14.1 [GH-28479]
• secrets/openldap: Update plugin to v0.14.2 [GH-28704]
• secrets/openldap: Update plugin to v0.14.3 [GH-28780]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• core: Add a mount tuneable that trims trailing slashes of request paths during POST. Needed to support CMPv2 in PKI. [GH-28752]
• raft/snapshotagent (enterprise): upgrade raft-snapshotagent to v0.0.0-20241003195753-88fef418d705
• ui: Add button to copy secret path in kv v1 and v2 secrets engines [GH-28629]
• ui: Adds copy button to identity entity, alias and mfa method IDs [GH-28742]

BUG FIXES:

• agent: Fix chown error running agent on Windows with an auto-auth file sinks. [GH-28748]
• audit: Prevent users from enabling multiple audit devices of file type with the same file_path to write to. [GH-28751]
• cli: Fixed a CLI precedence issue where -agent-address didn't override VAULT_AGENT_ADDR as it should [GH-28574]
• core/seal (enterprise): Fix bug that caused seal generation information to be replicated, which prevented disaster recovery and performance replication clusters from using their own seal high-availability configuration.
• core/seal: Fix an issue that could cause reading from sys/seal-backend-status to return stale information. [GH-28631]
• core: Fixed panic seen when performing help requests without /v1/ in the URL. [GH-28669]
• kmip (enterprise): Use the default KMIP port for IPv6 addresses missing a port, for the listen_addrs configuration field, in order to match the existing IPv4 behavior
• namespaces (enterprise): Fix issue where namespace patch requests to a performance secondary would not patch the namespace's metadata.
• proxy: Fix chown error running proxy on Windows with an auto-auth file sink. [GH-28748]
• secrets/pki: Address issue with ACME HTTP-01 challenges failing for IPv6 IPs due to improperly formatted URLs [GH-28718]
• ui: No longer running decodeURIComponent on KVv2 list view allowing percent encoded data-octets in path name. [GH-28698]

v1.18.0

CHANGES:

• activity (enterprise): filter all fields in client count responses by the request namespace [GH-27790]
• activity (enterprise): remove deprecated fields distinct_entities and non_entity_tokens [GH-27830]
• activity log: Deprecated the field "default_report_months". Instead, the billing start time will be used to determine the start time
  when querying the activity log endpoints. [GH-27350]
• activity log: Deprecates the current_billing_period field for /sys/internal/counters/activity. The default start time
  will automatically be set the billing period start date. [GH-27426]
• activity: The activity export API now requires the sudo ACL capability. [GH-27846]
• activity: The activity export API now responds with a status of 204 instead 400 when no data exists within the time range specified by start_time and end_time. [GH-28064]
• activity: The startTime will be set to the start of the current billing period by default.
  The endTime will be set to the end of the current month. This applies to /sys/internal/counters/activity,
  /sys/internal/counters/activity/export, and the vault operator usage command that utilizes /sys/internal/counters/activity. [GH-27379]
• api: Update backoff/v3 to backoff/v4.3.0 [GH-26868]
• auth/alicloud: Update plugin to v0.19.0 [GH-28263]
• auth/azure: Update plugin to v0.19.0 [GH-28294]
• auth/cf: Update plugin to v0.18.0 [GH-27724]
• auth/cf: Update plugin to v0.19.0 [GH-28266]
• auth/gcp: Update plugin to v0.19.0 [GH-28366]
• auth/jwt: Update plugin to v0.21.0 [GH-27498]
• auth/jwt: Update plugin to v0.22.0 [GH-28349]
• auth/kerberos: Update plugin to v0.13.0 [GH-28264]
• auth/kubernetes: Update plugin to v0.20.0 [GH-28289]
• auth/oci: Update plugin to v0.17.0 [GH-28307]
• cli: The undocumented -dev-three-node and -dev-four-cluster CLI options have been removed. [GH-27578]
• consul-template: updated to version 0.39.1 [GH-27799]
• core(enterprise): Updated the following two control group related errors responses to respond with response code 400 instead of 500: control group: could not find token, and control group: token is not a valid control group token.
• core: Bump Go version to 1.22.7
• database/couchbase: Update plugin to v0.12.0 [GH-28327]
• database/elasticsearch: Update plugin to v0.16.0 [GH-28277]
• database/mongodbatlas: Update plugin to v0.13.0 [GH-28268]
• database/redis-elasticache: Update plugin to v0.5.0 [GH-28293]
• database/redis: Update plugin to v0.4.0 [GH-28404]
• database/snowflake: Update plugin to v0.12.0 [GH-28275]
• sdk: Upgrade to go-secure-stdlib/plugincontainer@v0.4.0, which also bumps github.com/docker/docker to v26.1.5+incompatible [GH-28269]
• secrets/ad: Update plugin to v0.19.0 [GH-28361]
• secrets/alicloud: Update plugin to v0.18.0 [GH-28271]
• secrets/azure: Update plugin to v0.19.2 [GH-27652]
• secrets/azure: Update plugin to v0.20.0 [GH-28267]
• secrets/gcp: Update plugin to v0.20.0 [GH-28324]
• secrets/gcpkms: Update plugin to v0.18.0 [GH-28300]
• secrets/gcpkms: Update plugin to v0.19.0 [GH-28360]
• secrets/kubernetes: Update plugin to v0.9.0 [GH-28287]
• secrets/kv: Update plugin to v0.20.0 [GH-28334]
• secrets/mongodbatlas: Update plugin to v0.13.0 [GH-28348]
• secrets/openldap: Update plugin to v0.14.0 [GH-28325]
• secrets/ssh: Add a flag, allow_empty_principals to allow keys or certs to apply to any user/principal. [GH-28466]
• secrets/terraform: Update plugin to v0.10.0 [GH-28312]
• secrets/terraform: Update plugin to v0.9.0 [GH-28016]
• ui: Uses the internal/counters/activity/export endpoint for client count export data. [GH-27455]

FEATURES:

• AWS secrets engine STS session tags support: Adds support for setting STS
  session tags when generating temporary credentials using the AWS secrets
  engine. [GH-27620]
• Adaptive Overload Protection (enterprise): Enables Adaptive Overload Protection
  for write requests as a GA feature (enabled by default) for Integrated Storage.
• Audit Entry Exclusion: Audit devices support excluding fields from entries being written to them, with expression-based rules (powered by go-bexpr) to determine when the specific fields are excluded.
• Workload Identity Federation UI for AWS (enterprise): Add WIF fields to AWS secrets engine. [GH-28148]
• KV v2 Patch/Subkey (enterprise): Adds GUI support to read the subkeys of a KV v2 secret and patch (partially update) secret data. [GH-28212]
• Self-Managed Static Roles: Self-Managed Static Roles are now supported for select SQL database engines (Postgres, Oracle). Requires Vault Enterprise. [GH-28199]
• Vault Minimal Version: Add the ability to build a minimal version of Vault
  with only core features using the BUILD_MINIMAL environment variable. [GH-27394]
• Vault PKI 3GPP CMPv2 Server (Enterprise): Support for the PKI 3GPP CMPv2 certificate management protocol has been added to the Vault PKI Plugin. This allows standard CMPv2 clients to request certificates from a Vault server with no knowledge of Vault APIs.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• activity log: Changes how new client counts in the current month are estimated, in order to return more
  visibly sensible totals. [GH-27547]
• activity: The activity export API can now be called in non-root namespaces. Resulting records will be filtered to include the requested namespace (via X-Vault-Namespace header or within the path) and all child namespaces. [GH-27846]
• activity: The activity export API now includes identity metadata about entity clients. [GH-28064]
• activity: /sys/internal/counters/activity will now include a warning if the specified usage period contains estimated client counts. [GH-28068]
• agent/sink: Allow configuration of the user and group ID of the file sink. [GH-27123]
• agent: Add metric (vault.agent.authenticated) that is set to 1 when vault agent has a valid token and zero if it does not. [GH-26570]
• agent: Add the ability to dump pprof to the filesystem using SIGUSR2 [GH-27510]
• audit: Adds TRACE logging to log request/response under certain circumstances, and further improvements to the audit subsystem. [GH-28056]
• audit: Ensure that any underyling errors from audit devices are logged even if we consider auditing to be a success. [GH-27809]
• audit: Internal implementation changes to the audit subsystem which improve performance. [GH-27952]
• audit: Internal implementation changes to the audit subsystem which improve relability. [GH-28286]
• audit: sinks (file, socket, syslog) will attempt to log errors to the server operational
  log before returning (if there are errors to log, and the context is done). [GH-27859]
• auth/cert: Cache full list of role trust information separat...

v1.17.6

1.17.6

September 25, 2024

CHANGES:

• core: Bump Go version to 1.22.7
• secrets/ldap: Update vault-plugin-secrets-openldap to v0.13.1 [GH-28478]
• secrets/ssh: Add a flag, allow_empty_principals to allow keys or certs to apply to any user/principal. [GH-28466]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• audit: Internal implementation changes to the audit subsystem which improve relability. [GH-28286]
• ui: Remove deprecated current_billing_period from dashboard activity log request [GH-27559]

BUG FIXES:

• auth/aws: Fixed potential panic after step-down and the queue has not repopulated. [GH-28330]
• auth/cert: During certificate validation, OCSP requests are debug logged even if Vault's log level is above DEBUG. [GH-28450]
• auth/cert: ocsp_ca_certificates field was not honored when validating OCSP responses signed by a CA that did not issue the certificate. [GH-28309]
• auth: Updated error handling for missing login credentials in AppRole and UserPass auth methods to return a 400 error instead of a 500 error. [GH-28441]
• core: Fixed an issue where maximum request duration timeout was not being added to all requests containing strings sys/monitor and sys/events. With this change, timeout is now added to all requests except monitor and events endpoint. [GH-28230]
• proxy/cache (enterprise): Fixed a data race that could occur while tracking capabilities in Proxy's static secret cache. [GH-28494]
• secrets-sync (enterprise): Secondary nodes in a cluster now properly check activation-flags values.
• secrets-sync (enterprise): Validate corresponding GitHub app parameters app_name and installation_id are set

v1.18.0-rc1

September 18, 2024

CHANGES:

• activity (enterprise): filter all fields in client count responses by the request namespace [GH-27790]
• activity (enterprise): remove deprecated fields distinct_entities and non_entity_tokens [GH-27830]
• activity log: Deprecated the field "default_report_months". Instead, the billing start time will be used to determine the start time
  when querying the activity log endpoints. [GH-27350]
• activity log: Deprecates the current_billing_period field for /sys/internal/counters/activity. The default start time
  will automatically be set the billing period start date. [GH-27426]
• activity: The activity export API now requires the sudo ACL capability. [GH-27846]
• activity: The activity export API now responds with a status of 204 instead 400 when no data exists within the time range specified by start_time and end_time. [GH-28064]
• activity: The startTime will be set to the start of the current billing period by default.
  The endTime will be set to the end of the current month. This applies to /sys/internal/counters/activity,
  /sys/internal/counters/activity/export, and the vault operator usage command that utilizes /sys/internal/counters/activity. [GH-27379]
• api: Update backoff/v3 to backoff/v4.3.0 [GH-26868]
• auth/alicloud: Update plugin to v0.19.0 [GH-28263]
• auth/azure: Update plugin to v0.19.0 [GH-28294]
• auth/cf: Update plugin to v0.18.0 [GH-27724]
• auth/cf: Update plugin to v0.19.0 [GH-28266]
• auth/gcp: Update plugin to v0.19.0 [GH-28366]
• auth/jwt: Update plugin to v0.21.0 [GH-27498]
• auth/jwt: Update plugin to v0.22.0 [GH-28349]
• auth/kerberos: Update plugin to v0.13.0 [GH-28264]
• auth/kubernetes: Update plugin to v0.20.0 [GH-28289]
• auth/oci: Update plugin to v0.17.0 [GH-28307]
• cli: The undocumented -dev-three-node and -dev-four-cluster CLI options have been removed. [GH-27578]
• consul-template: updated to version 0.39.1 [GH-27799]
• core(enterprise): Updated the following two control group related errors responses to respond with response code 400 instead of 500: control group: could not find token, and control group: token is not a valid control group token.
• core: Bump Go version to 1.22.7
• database/couchbase: Update plugin to v0.12.0 [GH-28327]
• database/elasticsearch: Update plugin to v0.16.0 [GH-28277]
• database/mongodbatlas: Update plugin to v0.13.0 [GH-28268]
• database/redis-elasticache: Update plugin to v0.5.0 [GH-28293]
• database/redis: Update plugin to v0.4.0 [GH-28404]
• database/snowflake: Update plugin to v0.12.0 [GH-28275]
• sdk: Upgrade to go-secure-stdlib/plugincontainer@v0.4.0, which also bumps github.com/docker/docker to v26.1.5+incompatible [GH-28269]
• secrets/ad: Update plugin to v0.19.0 [GH-28361]
• secrets/alicloud: Update plugin to v0.18.0 [GH-28271]
• secrets/azure: Update plugin to v0.19.2 [GH-27652]
• secrets/azure: Update plugin to v0.20.0 [GH-28267]
• secrets/gcp: Update plugin to v0.20.0 [GH-28324]
• secrets/gcpkms: Update plugin to v0.18.0 [GH-28300]
• secrets/gcpkms: Update plugin to v0.19.0 [GH-28360]
• secrets/kubernetes: Update plugin to v0.9.0 [GH-28287]
• secrets/kv: Update plugin to v0.20.0 [GH-28334]
• secrets/mongodbatlas: Update plugin to v0.13.0 [GH-28348]
• secrets/openldap: Update plugin to v0.14.0 [GH-28325]
• secrets/terraform: Update plugin to v0.10.0 [GH-28312]
• secrets/terraform: Update plugin to v0.9.0 [GH-28016]
• ui: Uses the internal/counters/activity/export endpoint for client count export data. [GH-27455]

FEATURES:

• AWS secrets engine STS session tags support: Adds support for setting STS
  session tags when generating temporary credentials using the AWS secrets
  engine. [GH-27620]
• Adaptive Overload Protection (enterprise): Enables Adaptive Overload Protection
  for write requests as a GA feature (enabled by default) for Integrated Storage.
• Audit Entry Exclusion: Audit devices support excluding fields from entries being written to them, with expression-based rules (powered by go-bexpr) to determine when the specific fields are excluded.
• Workload Identity Federation UI for AWS (enterprise): Add WIF fields to AWS secrets engine. [GH-28148]
• KV v2 Patch/Subkey (enterprise): Adds GUI support to read the subkeys of a KV v2 secret and patch (partially update) secret data. [GH-28212]
• Self-Managed Static Roles: Self-Managed Static Roles are now supported for select SQL database engines (Postgres, Oracle). Requires Vault Enterprise. [GH-28199]
• Vault Minimal Version: Add the ability to build a minimal version of Vault
  with only core features using the BUILD_MINIMAL environment variable. [GH-27394]
• Vault PKI 3GPP CMPv2 Server (Enterprise): Support for the PKI 3GPP CMPv2 certificate management protocol has been added to the Vault PKI Plugin. This allows standard CMPv2 clients to request certificates from a Vault server with no knowledge of Vault APIs.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• activity log: Changes how new client counts in the current month are estimated, in order to return more
  visibly sensible totals. [GH-27547]
• activity: The activity export API can now be called in non-root namespaces. Resulting records will be filtered to include the requested namespace (via X-Vault-Namespace header or within the path) and all child namespaces. [GH-27846]
• activity: The activity export API now includes identity metadata about entity clients. [GH-28064]
• activity: /sys/internal/counters/activity will now include a warning if the specified usage period contains estimated client counts. [GH-28068]
• agent/sink: Allow configuration of the user and group ID of the file sink. [GH-27123]
• agent: Add metric (vault.agent.authenticated) that is set to 1 when vault agent has a valid token and zero if it does not. [GH-26570]
• agent: Add the ability to dump pprof to the filesystem using SIGUSR2 [GH-27510]
• audit: Adds TRACE logging to log request/response under certain circumstances, and further improvements to the audit subsystem. [GH-28056]
• audit: Ensure that any underyling errors from audit devices are logged even if we consider auditing to be a success. [GH-27809]
• audit: Internal implementation changes to the audit subsystem which improve performance. [GH-27952]
• audit: Internal implementation changes to the audit subsystem which improve relability. [GH-28286]
• audit: sinks (file, socket, syslog) will attempt to log errors to the server operational
  log before returning (if there are errors to log, and the context is done). [GH-27859]
• auth/cert: Cache full list of role trust information separately to avoid
  eviction, and avoid duplicate loading during multiple simultaneous logins on
  the same role. [[GH-27902](https://github.com/hashic...

v1.17.5

1.17.5

August 30, 2024

SECURITY:

core/audit: fix regression where client tokens and token accessors were being
displayed in the audit log in plaintext HCSEC-2024-18

BUG FIXES:

• proxy/cache (enterprise): Fixed an issue where Proxy with static secret caching enabled would not correctly handle requests to older secret versions for KVv2 secrets. Proxy's static secret cache now properly handles all requests relating to older versions for KVv2 secrets. [GH-28207]
• ui: fixes renew-self being called right after login for non-renewable tokens [GH-28204]

v1.17.4

1.17.4

August 29, 2024

CHANGES:

• activity (enterprise): filter all fields in client count responses by the request namespace [GH-27790]
• core: Bump Go version to 1.22.6
• secrets/terraform: Update plugin to v0.9.0 [GH-28016]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• activity log: Changes how new client counts in the current month are estimated, in order to return more
  visibly sensible totals. [GH-27547]
• activity: /sys/internal/counters/activity will now include a warning if the specified usage period contains estimated client counts. [GH-28068]
• audit: Adds TRACE logging to log request/response under certain circumstances, and further improvements to the audit subsystem. [GH-28056]
• cli: vault operator usage will now include a warning if the specified usage period contains estimated client counts. [GH-28068]
• core/activity: Ensure client count queries that include the current month return consistent results by sorting the clients before performing estimation [GH-28062]
• raft-snapshot (enterprise): add support for managed identity credentials for azure snapshots

BUG FIXES:

• activity: The sys/internal/counters/activity endpoint will return current month data when the end_date parameter is set to a future date. [GH-28042]
• auth/aws: fixes an issue where not supplying an external id was interpreted as an empty external id [GH-27858]
• command: The vault secrets move and vault auth move command will no longer attempt to write to storage on performance standby nodes. [GH-28059]
• core (enterprise): Fix deletion of MFA login-enforcement configurations on standby nodes
• secrets/database: Skip connection verification on reading existing DB connection configuration [GH-28139]
• ui: fixes toast (flash) alert message saying "created" when deleting a kv v2 secret [GH-28093]

v1.17.3

1.17.3

August 07, 2024

CHANGES:

• auth/cf: Update plugin to v0.18.0 [GH-27724]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• audit: Ensure that any underyling errors from audit devices are logged even if we consider auditing to be a success. [GH-27809]
• audit: Internal implementation changes to the audit subsystem which improve performance. [GH-27952]
• audit: sinks (file, socket, syslog) will attempt to log errors to the server operational
  log before returning (if there are errors to log, and the context is done). [GH-27859]
• auth/cert: Cache full list of role trust information separately to avoid
  eviction, and avoid duplicate loading during multiple simultaneous logins on
  the same role. [GH-27902]
• license utilization reporting (enterprise): Auto-roll billing start date. [GH-27656]
• website/docs: Added API documentation for Azure Secrets Engine delete role [GH-27883]

BUG FIXES:

• auth/cert: Use subject's serial number, not issuer's within error message text in OCSP request errors [GH-27696]
• core (enterprise): Fix 500 errors that occurred querying sys/internal/ui/mounts for a mount prefixed by a namespace path when path filters are configured. [GH-27939]
• core/identity: Fixed an issue where deleted/reassigned entity-aliases were not removed from in-memory database. [GH-27750]
• proxy/cache (enterprise): Fixed an issue where Proxy would not correctly update KV secrets when talking to a perf standby. Proxy will now attempt to forward requests to update secrets triggered by events to the active node. Note that this requires allow_forwarding_via_header to be configured on the cluster. [GH-27891]
• proxy/cache (enterprise): Fixed an issue where cached static secrets could fail to update if the secrets belonged to a non-root namespace. [GH-27730]
• raft/autopilot: Fixed panic that may occur during shutdown [GH-27726]
• secrets-sync (enterprise): Destination set/remove operations will no longer be blocked as "purge in progress" after a purge job ended in failure.
• secrets-sync (enterprise): Normalize custom_tag keys and values for recoverable invalid characters.
• secrets-sync (enterprise): Normalize secret key names before storing the external_name in a secret association.
• secrets-sync (enterprise): Patching github sync destination credentials will properly update and save the new credentials.
• secrets-sync (enterprise): Return an error immediately on destination creation when providing invalid custom_tags based on destination type.
• secrets/identity (enterprise): Fix a bug that can cause DR promotion to fail in rare cases where a PR secondary has inconsistent alias information in storage.
• sys: Fix a bug where mounts of external plugins that were registered before Vault v1.0.0 could not be tuned to
  use versioned plugins. [GH-27881]
• ui: Fix cursor jump on KVv2 json editor that would occur after pressing ENTER. [GH-27569]
• ui: fix issue where enabling then disabling "Tidy ACME" in PKI results in failed API call. [GH-27742]
• ui: fix namespace picker not working when in small screen where the sidebar is collapsed by default. [GH-27728]

v1.17.2

1.17.2

July 10, 2024

CHANGES:

• core: Bump Go version to 1.22.5
• secrets/azure: Update plugin to v0.19.2 [GH-27652]

FEATURES:

• AWS secrets engine STS session tags support: Adds support for setting STS
  session tags when generating temporary credentials using the AWS secrets
  engine. [GH-27620]

BUG FIXES:

• cli: Fixed issue with vault hcp connect where HCP resources with uppercase letters were inaccessible when entering the correct project name. [GH-27694]
• core (enterprise): Fix HTTP redirects in namespaces to use the correct path and (in the case of event subscriptions) the correct URI scheme. [GH-27660]
• core/config: fix issue when using proxy_protocol_behavior with deny_unauthorized,
  which causes the Vault TCP listener to close after receiving an untrusted upstream proxy connection. [GH-27589]
• core: Fixed an issue with performance standbys not being able to handle rotate root requests. [GH-27631]
• secrets/transit (enterprise): Fix an issue that caused input data be returned as part of generated CMAC values.
• ui: Display an error and force a timeout when TOTP passcode is incorrect [GH-27574]
• ui: Ensure token expired banner displays when batch token expires [GH-27479]

v1.17.1

1.17.1

June 26, 2024

CHANGES:

• auth/jwt: Update plugin to v0.21.0 [GH-27498]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• storage/raft: Improve autopilot logging on startup to show config values clearly and avoid spurious logs [GH-27464]
• ui/secrets-sync: Hide Secrets Sync from the sidebar nav if user does not have access to the feature. [GH-27262]

BUG FIXES:

• agent: Fixed an issue causing excessive CPU usage during normal operation [GH-27518]
• config: Vault TCP listener config now correctly supports the documented proxy_protocol_behavior
  setting of 'deny_unauthorized' [GH-27459]
• core/audit: Audit logging a Vault request/response checks if the existing context
  is cancelled and will now use a new context with a 5 second timeout.
  If the existing context is cancelled a new context, will be used. [GH-27531]
• helper/pkcs7: Fix parsing certain messages containing only certificates [GH-27435]
• proxy: Fixed an issue causing excessive CPU usage during normal operation [GH-27518]
• replication (enterprise): fix cache invalidation issue leading to namespace custom metadata not being shown correctly on performance secondaries
• secrets-sync (enterprise): Properly remove tags from secrets in AWS when they are removed from the source association
• secrets-sync (enterprise): Return more accurate error code for invalid connection details
• secrets-sync (enterprise): Skip invalid GitHub repository names when creating destinations
• storage/azure: Fix invalid account name initialization bug [GH-27563]
• storage/raft (enterprise): Fix issue with namespace cache not getting cleared on snapshot restore, resulting in namespaces not found in the snapshot being inaccurately represented by API responses. [GH-27474]
• ui: Allow creation of session_token type roles for AWS secret backend [GH-27424]

v1.17.0

1.17.0

June 12, 2024

CHANGES:

• api: Upgrade from github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3 v3.0.3 to github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4 v4.0.1. [GH-26527]
• audit: breaking change - Vault now allows audit logs to contain 'correlation-id' and 'x-correlation-id' headers when they
  are present in the incoming request. By default they are not HMAC'ed (but can be configured to HMAC by Vault Operators). [GH-26777]
• auth/alicloud: Update plugin to v0.18.0 [GH-27133]
• auth/azure: Update plugin to v0.18.0 [GH-27146]
• auth/centrify: Remove the deprecated Centrify auth method plugin [GH-27130]
• auth/cf: Update plugin to v0.17.0 [GH-27161]
• auth/gcp: Update plugin to v0.18.0 [GH-27140]
• auth/jwt: Update plugin to v0.20.2 [GH-26291]
• auth/jwt: Update plugin to v0.20.3 [GH-26890]
• auth/kerberos: Update plugin to v0.12.0 [GH-27177]
• auth/kubernetes: Update plugin to v0.19.0 [GH-27186]
• auth/oci: Update plugin to v0.16.0 [GH-27142]
• core (enterprise): Seal High Availability (HA) must be enabled by enable_multiseal in configuration.
• core/identity: improve performance for secondary nodes receiving identity related updates through replication [GH-27184]
• core: Bump Go version to 1.22.4
• core: return an additional "invalid token" error message in 403 response when the provided request token is expired,
  exceeded the number of uses, or is a bogus value [GH-25953]
• database/couchbase: Update plugin to v0.11.0 [GH-27145]
• database/elasticsearch: Update plugin to v0.15.0 [GH-27136]
• database/mongodbatlas: Update plugin to v0.12.0 [GH-27143]
• database/redis-elasticache: Update plugin to v0.4.0 [GH-27139]
• database/redis: Update plugin to v0.3.0 [GH-27117]
• database/snowflake: Update plugin to v0.11.0 [GH-27132]
• sdk: String templates now have a maximum size of 100,000 characters. [GH-26110]
• secrets/ad: Update plugin to v0.18.0 [GH-27172]
• secrets/alicloud: Update plugin to v0.17.0 [GH-27134]
• secrets/azure: Update plugin to v0.17.1 [GH-26528]
• secrets/azure: Update plugin to v0.19.0 [GH-27141]
• secrets/gcp: Update plugin to v0.19.0 [GH-27164]
• secrets/gcpkms: Update plugin to v0.17.0 [GH-27163]
• secrets/keymgmt (enterprise): Removed namespace label on the vault.kmse.key.count metric.
• secrets/kmip (enterprise): Update plugin to v0.15.0
• secrets/kubernetes: Update plugin to v0.8.0 [GH-27187]
• secrets/kv: Update plugin to v0.18.0 [GH-26877]
• secrets/kv: Update plugin to v0.19.0 [GH-27159]
• secrets/mongodbatlas: Update plugin to v0.12.0 [GH-27149]
• secrets/openldap: Update plugin to v0.13.0 [GH-27137]
• secrets/pki: sign-intermediate API will truncate notAfter if calculated to go beyond the signing issuer's notAfter. Previously the notAfter was permitted to go beyond leading to invalid chains. [GH-26796]
• secrets/terraform: Update plugin to v0.8.0 [GH-27147]
• ui/kubernetes: Update the roles filter-input to use explicit search. [GH-27178]
• ui: Update dependencies including D3 libraries [GH-26346]
• ui: Upgrade Ember data from 4.11.3 to 4.12.4 [GH-25272]
• ui: Upgrade Ember to version 5.4 [GH-26708]
• ui: deleting a nested secret will no longer redirect you to the nearest path segment [GH-26845]
• ui: flash messages render on right side of page [GH-25459]

FEATURES:

• PKI Certificate Metadata (enterprise): Add Certificate Metadata Functionality to Record and Return Client Information about a Certificate.
• Adaptive Overload Protection (enterprise): Adds Adaptive Overload Protection
  for write requests as a Beta feature (disabled by default). This automatically
  prevents overloads caused by too many write requests while maintaining optimal
  throughput for the hardware configuration and workload.
• Audit Filtering (enterprise) : Audit devices support expression-based filter rules (powered by go-bexpr) to determine which entries are written to the audit log.
• LDAP Secrets engine hierarchical path support: Hierarchical path handling is now supported for role and set APIs. [GH-27203]
• Plugin Identity Tokens: Adds secret-less configuration of AWS auth engine using web identity federation. [GH-26507]
• Plugin Workload Identity (enterprise): Vault can generate identity tokens for plugins to use in workload identity federation auth flows.
• Transit AES-CMAC (enterprise): Added support to create and verify AES backed cipher-based message authentication codes

IMPROVEMENTS:

• activity (enterprise): Change minimum retention window in activity log to 48 months
• agent: Added a new config option, lease_renewal_threshold, that controls the refresh rate of non-renewable leases in Agent's template engine. [GH-25212]
• agent: Agent will re-trigger auto auth if token used for rendering templates has been revoked, has exceeded the number of uses, or is a bogus value. [GH-26172]
• api: Move CLI token helper functions to importable packages in api module. [GH-25744]
• audit: timestamps across multiple audit devices for an audit entry will now match. [GH-26088]
• auth/aws: Add inferred_hostname metadata for IAM AWS authentication method. [GH-25418]
• auth/aws: add canonical ARN as entity alias option [GH-22460]
• auth/aws: add support for external_ids in AWS assume-role [GH-26628]
• auth/cert: Adds support for TLS certificate authenticaion through a reverse proxy that terminates the SSL connection [GH-17272]
• cli: Add events subscriptions commands
• command/server: Removed environment variable requirement to generate pprof
  files using SIGUSR2. Added CPU profile support. [GH-25391]
• core (enterprise): persist seal rewrap status, so rewrap status API is consistent on secondary nodes.
• core/activity: Include ACME client metrics to precomputed queries [GH-26519]
• core/activity: Include ACME clients in activity log responses [GH-26020]
• core/activity: Include ACME clients in vault operator usage response [GH-26525]
• core/config: reload service registration configuration on SIGHUP [GH-17598]
• core: add deadlock detection in barrier and sealwrap
• license utilization reporting (enterprise): Add retention months to license utilization reports.
• proxy/cache (enterprise): Support new configuration parameter for static secret caching, static_secret_token_capability_refresh_behavior, to control the behavior when the capability refresh request receives an error from Vault.
• proxy: Proxy will re-trigger auto auth if the token used for requests has been revoked, has exceeded the number of uses,
  or is an otherwise invalid value. [GH-26307]
• raft/snapshotagent (enterprise): upgrade raft-snapshotagent to v0.0.0-20221104090112-13395acd02c5
• replication (enterprise): Add replication heartbeat metric to telemetry
• replication (enterprise): Periodically write current time on the primary to storage, use that downstream to measure replication lag in time, expose that in health and replication status endpoints. [GH-26406]
• sdk/decompression: DecompressWithCanary will now chunk the decompression in memory to prevent loading it all at once. [GH-26464]
• sdk/helper/testcluster: add some new helpers, improve some error mess...